Somewhere around middle school, you learned about squaring numbers and the inverse, finding the square root of a number, but a little reminder can't hurt. You square a number when you multiply it by ...
[MindYourDecisions] presents a Babylonian tablet dating back to around 1800 BC that shows that the hypotenuse of a unit square is the square root of two or 1.41421. How did they know that? We don’t ...
The tone is gloriously whimsical, part tree, part stand-up comic, embracing all the weird, wonderful personality traits Londoners love to assign to inanimate objects. One moment it’s boasting about ...